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At the time CTA also announced that the December 15, 2013 deadline for the complete transition was still in effect. [17] A Ventra system outage that occurred during rush hour on November 13, 2013 required the CTA to waive fares for an estimated 15,000 rides, with passengers boarding trains by showing their Ventra cards to station attendants.
Ventra is an electronic fare payment system for the Chicago Transit Authority and Pace that replaced the Chicago Card and the Transit Card automated fare collection system. Ventra (purportedly Latin for "windy," though the actual Latin word is ventosa) [10] launched in August 2013, with a full system transition slated for July 1, 2014.
On June 1, 2014, CTA and Pace stopped accepting these cards as part of a transition to Ventra. [1] The blue Chicago Card was a stored value card. Users added value to the card at CTA vending machines or at select retail locations, and turnstiles or fareboxes deducted value from the card. Users usually registered cards with CTA and could receive ...
October 31, 1993 - The CTA introduces rail service to Midway International Airport. August 18, 1997 - Fare cards are first used. June 1, 1999 - Use of tokens is discontinued.
A new day pass could soon allow CTA, Metra and Pace users to pay for rides across all three systems’ buses and trains, a step toward long-awaited complete integration of fares among the region ...
In the past, you would have seen tables outside the student union, featuring logos of banks and credit card companies, luring gullible freshmen with offers of free coupons and T-shirts in.
4 day rail rover (UK, 1994). A transit pass (North American English) or travel card (British English), often referred to as a bus pass or train pass etc. (in all English dialects), [1] [2] is a ticket that allows a passenger of the service to take either a certain number of pre-purchased trips or unlimited trips within a fixed period of time.
CityKey serves as a three-in-one card for a valid government issued ID, Ventra card for Chicago Transit Authority, and Chicago Public Library services. [25] With the first 100,000 ID cards free of cost, initial response to the Chicago CityKey was extremely high and successful. [26] In some city wards, residents waited hours in line to receive ...